If you take no stock in the main Christian festival of Easter, or if you are a non-Jew who has no interest in atoning in the fall, you have an all-American fighting chance of being able to ignore these events, or of being only briefly subjected to parking restrictions in Manhattan.

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Although, I am a non-practicing Jew, and abhor the 24-hour fast, I usually fast out of respect for my fellow Jews and to empathize with those suffering in poverty.

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Its author, Ruth Harris, is not a devout Christian but, like Ms Medwick, a non-observant Jew.

ECONOMIST: Christian believers

His mother was of Jewish-Algerian descent, and in later life Mr Cope would describe himself as a "non-practising Jew".

BBC: Profile: Jean-Francois Cope, leader of France's UMP

Also, he is a member of the influential parliamentary commission on banking standards, although his remarks to the Christians in Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group were personal, rather than representing those of the commission (I should perhaps point out that I was the token non-observant Jew on the panel that then responded to the Archbishop's reflections).

BBC: Should bishops run the banks?

The Western media has two basic approaches to their non-reporting of Islamic Jew-hatred and its significance for international security.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: About those Jews

Instead of supporting Israel, Tibi asked the US to lend its support to support the partition of the land west of the Jordan River between a Jew-free Arab state of "Palestine, " and a non-Jewish state in the rest of the area.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Israeli Left's loser message